Box Elder News Journal | 1913-12-25 | Page 6 | Mysticism of the East

mysticism of the east you hear bear a great deal of the mysticism of the east writes ed W howe in his travel notes this mysticism is as foolish as aa the doggerel used by children when they count tho the buttons on your coat rich man poor poo ninan man beggar man thief and so on mysticism never means a anything the west solves riddles and discovers how bow to produce a hundred buh els of corn to the acre the east pays great attention to mysticism and has hai more poor dirty and ignorant people than any other part of the world worl d when the plague breaks out in the tha east as a result of foolish pilgrimage to mecca or benares Be narea the pilgrims pilgrim B ray pa the plague is part of the mysticism of the east band and continue to drai holy and dirty water but the n nin na a of the west have a better doctrie its chief tenet la is clean up and tio tao plague disappears before it